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On the Earth, the cycle started with a molecule of RNA that could reproduce itself. This was
the beginning of type 4 life. Improvements in self-reproducing life are accomplished by
random variations followed by “survival of the fittest.” In the case of the Earth, the next
previous life.
Once life starts, it changes the environment so that subsequent life is evolving in a new and
different environment. Early Earth had little oxygen in its atmosphere. As plant forms
digested carbon dioxide and expelled oxygen, the percentage of oxygen increased over time.
Another type of life is type 5, "designed life". In the case of Earth, designed life has evolved as
a solution to an environment created by intelligent forms of organic life. Designed life is
superior to bootstrap life (another name for type 4 life) because it does not need to contain the
factory that makes its offspring. Take for example, a PC computer being manufactured at Dell.
The computer need not contain any reproductive mechanism, yet the environment causes it
to be reproduced at more than one hundred thousand per day. Humans, by contrast must be
able to give birth in order to reproduce.
Rabbits, buildings, humans and computers are all examples of negentropic solutions to the
Earth’s environment at this point.
Humans evolved to eat plants and animals because that was the form of energy and matter for
sustenance that was available to them at the time of their evolution. It also made sense
because both humans and plants are made from similar organic molecules based on similar
proteins, sugars, etc. Computers evolved to use electricity and the output of metal and silicon
factories because that is the type of food and energy available to them as they evolved.
When you visit the city, you see more designed and manufactured life forms and when you
visit the country you see more self-reproducing organic forms of life. It is fairly obvious that
the cities are more advanced than the countryside. New forms of inorganic life are being
created every day and old forms of organic life are becoming extinct every day.
More advanced countries have a declining human birth rate and an increasing rate of new
product development. These new products are mostly of the inorganic externally-replicated
variety but some of the new products are improved forms of organic plants and animals.
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